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“This project I selected for Community Project Funding because the lack of affordable housing and the need for affordable housing is something I hear about everywhere I go in Northwest Oregon,” Bonamici said. “To be able to get this funding for the infrastructure means it’s right at the front end, and we can see the project move forward more rapidly because of the funding.”

“When I saw Project Turnkey in Oregon, visited some of the sites, I thought this is a great idea. It’s turning around lives. Let’s scale it up and make it a national program,” said Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.).

“When we invest in the creative economy, we see the whole community change,” Bonamici said in a call last week. “My office is in Beaverton at The Round and when the Patricia Reser Center for the Arts opened, it was incredible what that did. Now there are restaurants and gathering spaces and people coming together.”

“We heard the stories from homeowners about what it means to be able to get into a home, to have that home ownership opportunity," Bonamici said at the event. "It’s just wonderful to be able to be at the early stages of the process to get it up and going.”

Bonamici called out what she called the hypocrisy of Republicans who she said wouldn't denounce a video posted on former President Donald Trump's Truth Social platform that had Nazi language.